http://www.joyparisi.com/ Whatever you write, it will never be good enough. en-us 2007-10-16T14:02:02-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000305.html Here we are mid-October. My thirteen-year old nephew is playing fall ball, the fall baseball league for middle-school boys. On the league are all the boys who have chosen not to play football, and so my nephew is hitting clean... observations joyparisi 2007-10-16T14:02:02-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000296.html The next to last bus for Greenport leaves at seven o'clock on Friday evening from the corner of Forty-Sixth and Third Avenue. If you're lucky (and I was lucky), in a little under two hours and with few stops or... traveling joyparisi 2007-09-04T14:08:21-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000294.html new jersey joyparisi 2007-08-26T19:24:43-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000290.html During triathlon training last year (which feels like a few lifetimes ago) a friend gave me a piece of advice before my first race of the season: when you're in the race, she said, keep reminding yourself about how good... observations joyparisi 2007-05-08T21:31:37-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000289.html It is almost two o'clock on one of my writing days--a day I do not go to Paragraph, but stay home and write. Right. In other news, my physical therapist gave up on me two days ago. Physical therapy was... joyparisi 2007-04-19T13:52:20-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000288.html Can it really be over a month since the last post? Meaning, can it really be over a month and my back continues to nag and nag and nag? But here I go feeling sorry for myself again. The only... observations joyparisi 2007-04-12T12:06:09-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000286.html February, gone. What happened in February? My plan to ride my bike to heal my back pain was short-lived, maybe a few days into the month until I asked myself what I was doing on a bike when I could... joyparisi 2007-03-09T10:46:45-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000283.html It's Monday morning. Outside the bent slats of my office blinds (they came with the apartment), I have a ground floor view of S-- Street—cars parked curbside, a wrought iron fence capped with pointy iron maple leafs that stakes off... observations joyparisi 2007-01-29T12:33:35-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000281.html Two weeks and two days ago, I stepped out of the shower to find I couldn't put any weight on my right foot without a searing pain that started in my lower back on the right side and radiated down... observations joyparisi 2007-01-16T12:30:00-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000279.html Still on the hunt for a miracle cure for my back pain, one that will have me leaping off the examination table rather than rolling, pushing and gnashing my teeth off of it, I decided to give the one thing... observations joyparisi 2007-01-09T08:27:34-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000278.html observations joyparisi 2007-01-08T08:05:18-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000277.html Lying on the floor with my head resting on two bedpillows smashed against the legs of the couch, my feet up on a dining room chair and the moist heat of a heating pad (very important for it to be... observations joyparisi 2007-01-07T08:51:18-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000276.html I've discovered my threshold for pain and it is about three days, three hours and forty-eight minutes. On the morning of New Year's Eve, after stepping out of the shower, the muscles in my lower back contracted into a tight... observations joyparisi 2007-01-06T15:07:41-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000274.html With triathlon season well behind me, and having given up the notion that I'd put in even five hours a week to maintain any level of fitness in the off-season, I find myself with time. It's a glorious amount of... observations joyparisi 2006-12-27T18:19:18-05:00 http://www.joyparisi.com/mtarchives/000271.html A few days before Halloween, I suspect it’s going to be a pretty big holiday in Phoenix. There are the ornately decorated front yards of every house on my sister’s block, ghosts dangling from trees, webs stretched across bushes and... joyparisi 2006-10-31T13:10:59-05:00